The House is back in session, and the pace is far different from across the hall in the Senate. This is the chamber that moves with dispatch, and where one member has far less leeway to gum up the works.

House Judiciary Committee Joe Vallario is presenting his commitee's bills -- no, nothing to do with drunk driving -- and he's his typical irascible self when questioned by other members.

House Economic Matters Committee is moving to recede to the Senate's demands on an obscure bill having to do with underground facilities. Receding is part of the fine art of compromise here, where one chamber essentially decides the other chamber has written a better bill or simply wants to have its way more adamantly.

I'm heading for the Senate. The potential for sine die mischief is much greater there.